View from Away: Holding up military promotions risks compromising military readiness

Our View: Dismantling barriers to shelter will take patience and time

The early experience of Portland’s new Encampment Crisis Response Team should be instructive for all of Maine.

Our View: Low pay for state employees is hurting everyone

Compensation for state workers undervalues their work. As a result, both the workers and the work are suffering.

Our View: We have not nearly earned the right to quibble about gun control

Narrow and tendentious arguments against gun laws say they don’t - or won’t - make any difference. Pass the laws, find out.

Our View: UMaine System once again fails to be transparent

The state university system is withholding public information related to the bungled hiring of a new president last year at the University of Maine at Augusta.

Our View: Back to school, back to making education more of a priority

We're doing a good amount for Maine schools. To solve the most pernicious problems, however, we have to do more.

View from Away: Biden’s EPA is needlessly delaying smog standards until after the election

Our View: Brunswick-Gardiner interim trail the right way forward

A long-distance route that does not interact with car or truck traffic has the potential to be a gift that keeps on giving to the Midcoast.

Our View: To invest in immigrant pupils is to invest in the future

A big effort by Maine schools to accommodate English language learners will have a big return for their communities.

View from Away: Vladimir Putin is no Bond villain. Supporting him is morally repulsive